“In the years between her birth on November 23, 1535, and
her death on December 18, 1623, Anna, was married six times, bat she was never
divorced. She disposed of her first five husbands more simply by rubbing them
affectionately with an ointment that contained a mysterious and deadly poison.”
[William C. Mccloy. “The Wasserleonerg Ghost.– Woman Bluebeard Of Sixteenth Century. - History Of A Honeymoon
Castle,” The Auckland Star (Australia), Jul. 10, 1937, p. 9]

[Katharine Olson,”Did
16th century wealthy Welsh heiress poison three of her four husbands?” Western
Mail (Wales), Mar. 26, 2011]

►1763 –
Marie-Josephte Corriveau Saint-Vallier – Quebec, Canada

“Marie-Josephte
Corriveau (1733 at Saint-Vallier, Quebec – April 18, 1763 at Quebec
City), better known as “la Corriveau”,
is one of the most popular figures in Québécois folklore. She lived in New
France, and was sentenced to death by a British court martial for the murder of
her second husband, was hanged for it and her body hanged in chains. Her story
has become legendary in Quebec, and she is the subject of numerous books and
plays.” [Wikipedia]

[Accounts
of the purported series of husband-killings: James MacPherson Le Moine, “Marie-Josephte Corriveau, A Canadian
Lafarge, Maples Leaves, 1863, p. 68-74.]

The Corriveau legend has her murdering her first husband by pouring lead
in his ear. “Ostander’s case, of an English woman who murdered six
husbands by pouring molten lead into the ear. She was detected in the
seventh attempt.” [Rudolph August Witthaus, Medical jurisprudence,
forensic medicine and toxicology, Volume 3, 1896, p. 125; based on
Ostander’s 1813 book] [Ostander [Friedrich Benjamin Osiander], Über den
Selbstmord, seine Ursachen, Arten, medicinische gerichtliche
Untersuchung und die Mittel gegen denselben. Hannover 1813, p. 395]

Some accounts describe her as English but unnamed in medical
reference books and in English newspapers; story has her murdering 6 husbands,
and attempting to kill another, by means of pouring molten lead into the ear. [English Black Widow
– 6 hubs, 7th surv (“Ostander’s case” ), 1792]

►1807
– Rebecca “Becky” Cotton – Edgefield, South Carolina, USA

The
“Devil in Petticoats”

“In
his later work, a sermon, the Rev. Weems tells the story of Rebecca Cotton,
who, in the early 1800s, murdered three of the four men she married. Her
schemed and brutal murders only ended when her brother stoned her at the county
courthouse in 1807.”

“The legend of Lavinia Fisher has been told and retold since
her execution in Charleston, South Carolina in 1820 and with each telling it
has grown more extravagant and further from the truth. Today tourist pamphlets
and web sites will earnestly tell you that Lavinia was America’s first female
serial killer when, in fact, there is no hard evidence that she ever killed
anyone.” [Robert Wilhelm,“The
Legend of Lavinia Fisher,” Murder by Gaslight, Oct. 1, 2010]

Book: Bruce Orr, Six Miles to Charleston: The True Story of
John and Lavinia Fisher,2010

►1831
– Annie Palmer – Rose Hall, Jamaica (reportedly died, 1831)

“The basis for most of the White Witch legend seems to come from H.G. de
Lisser’s 1928 novel “The White Witch of Rose Hall”. This was a popular
novel telling the gripping story of an Annie Palmer that lived a very
different life to that indicated by the records available from the time.
[The facts about Rose Hall,” Jamaica Travel and Culture]

►1834 – Delphine MarieLaLaurie – New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

“The legends have grown about this house and its namesake,
twisting the real events into something almost unrecognizable. The phony body
count attributed to Delphine seems to increase with each passing year. But the
truth shows us that ‘Mad’ Madame LaLaurie was definitely not a saint, even if
she wasn’t a murderer (and it is unclear if she was). She was an accomplice and
almost certainly a participant in the slow, systematic torture of other human
beings, and demonstrated zero remorse for her misdeeds.” [James Caskey, “The
Haunted LaLaurie House in New Orleans,” James Caskey, Savannah Author, 13 Oct,
2014]

“Sally Skull may have killed two of five husbands. This is hedged with
the usual caveat — she was never charged or convicted. They just
disappeared.” [Murphy Givens, “Did husband No. 5 kill Sally Skull?”
Corpus Christi Caller Times (Tx.), Jun 29, 2011]

“The statement of Mr. Drake
certainly shows that Mrs. York could not poisoned three of the persons she is
said to have said to admitted killing, and hence it is very probable that the
confession, if made, was uttered while suffering from mental aberration.”
[“Discredited – What Mrs. E. R. Drake Knows of the Alleged Poisoning of Six
Persons Near Monmequa – Mrs. York’s Death-Bed Confession Discredited.” The
Chicago Daily Tribune (Il.), Jun. 17, 1873, p. 2]

►1889 –
“Cattle Queen Kate” Maxwell – Cheyenne, Wyoming, USA

“Ellen Liddy Watson
(July 2, 1860– July 20, 1889) was a pioneer of Wyoming who became
erroneously known as Cattle Kate,
a post-claimed outlaw of the Old West. The “outlaw” characterization is a
dubious one, as she was not violent and was never charged with any crime during
her life. Accused of cattle rustling, she was ultimately lynched by agents of
powerful cattle ranchers as an example to what happens to those who opposed
them and whose interests she had threatened. Her life has become the subject of
an Old West legend.” [Wikipedia]

“Her husband died mysteriously. It was whispered that she
poisoned him … she played every card game well and to fleece the innocent was
only pastime for her and her husband. two men who mysteriously disappeared were
traced to this deadfall, where they were, in all probability, murdered for
their money.” [‘Cattle Queen Kate’ Maxwell,” Salina County Journal (Ks.), Aug.
1, 1889, p. 6]